MICROBIOLOGY

Paper Code: 
ZOL-502
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to

1. The student will be able to identify common infectious agents and the diseases that they    cause.

2. The students will learn about the nutritional requirements of microbes.

3. The student will be able to explain general and specific mechanisms by which an infectious agent causes disease.

 

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

ZOL502

MICROBIOLOGY

The students will be able to –

CO55: Understand morphology of bacterial cell, its genetic material and modes of reproduction

CO56: Describe the epidemiology of infectious agents including how infectious diseases are transmitted.

CO57 Learn to culture the microbes.

CO58 Explain interventions employed to prevent infectious diseases including infection control measure and vaccines

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test

Semester end examinations

Quiz

Solving problems in tutorials

Assignments Presentation

Individual and group projects

 

9.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I
Brief introduction to the history of Microbiology
Work of Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Work of Louis Pasteur, John Tyndall, Robert Koch & Jenner
Prokaryota(Bacteria)
Size, shape & pattern of arrangement
Structural Organization—Slime layer(Capsule) Cell envelope, Cytoplasmic membrane(Inner membrane), Cell wall(Outer membrane) of gram-ve and gram +ve bacteria, Mesosomes; Cytoplasmic organization, Cell projections- Flagella & pili
10.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II
Genetic material of bacteria: Chromosomes, Plasmids, Replication of bacterial DNA
Reproduction in Bacteria: Asexual reproduction: Binary fission, budding, Endospore formation& cyst formation Transformation, Conjugation, 
Transduction & Bacterial recombination
 
8.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
 
Microbial nutrition culture of Bacteria
Carbon & energy source
Nitrogen & minerals
Organic growth factors
Oxygen
Environmental factors: Temperature, Hydrogen ion concentration, Osmotic pressure
 Microbial growth
 
10.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV
Bacteria of medical importance:
Gram +ve: 
Cocci : Staphylococci, Streptococci
Bacilli: Diptheria, Tetanus
Gram –ve:
Cocci: Gonorrhea, Meningitis
Bacilli: Diarrhoea
Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis 
Hepatitis (with emphasis on B type)
The causative agents, Transmission, Pathogenicity, Laboratory diagnosis, Treatment & Prevention
8.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V
Cyanobacteria(Structural organization and significance),
Yeast- industrial application
Virus : General Characteristics, structure, classification on the basis of morphology and genetic material
Lytic & Lysogenic cycles
 

 

Essential Readings: 
P.D. Sharma, Microbiology,Rastogi and Company, Meerut. 
Microbiological Application,AlfredE.Brown, McGraw.Hill
Microbiology by Totora, Pearson Education.
References: 
Microbial:T.StuartWalker,W.B.Saunders Company
Microbiological Application,AlfredE.Brown, McGraw.Hill
Practical Biochemistry:Principles and Techniques; Keith Wilson& John Walker;CambridgeUniversity Press.
Lechiman, W.Microbiology, Glenced Pub1. Co.New York
Nestler, R.L. Microbiology, W.S. Saunders, Philadelphia (Student edition:Holt-Saunders International Edition, Tokyo). 
Salle,S.J. Fundamental Principles of Bacteriology,TataMcGraw Hill Pub. Co., New Delhi. 
Stonier, T.I. Nouderroff, and Adeloverg, E.A. General Microbiology. 
Jacob D.IntroductoryMicrobiology,Ramesh Book Depot,Jaipur. 
Cruick shank et al. Medical Microbiology.The English Language Book Society,London. 
P.D. Sharma, Microbiology,Rastogi and Company, Meerut. 
David Freifelder-Molecular Biology, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi.

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021
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